Why does nobody seem to think that `null` is a serious problem in D?

[Aliak]

On Tuesday, 20 November 2018 at 15:29:50 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Tuesday, 20 November 2018 at 11:11:43 UTC, aliak wrote:
>> This only applies to little scripts and unittests maybe.
>>
>> Not when you're writing any kind of relatively larger 
>> application that involves being run for longer or if there's 
>> more possible permutations of your state variables.
>
> Umm... if you write a larger application not knowing what is a 
> reference type, you're into lots and lots of problems.

I’m not sure I understood your point? I was saying that you don’t 
necessarily hit your null dereference within a couple of seconds.